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The Far Future of the Cosmos and the Entropy of Thought
20:38 - 43:42 (23:03)
In the far future of the cosmos, any thinking system that generates heat will burn up and fry due to the universe's inability to absorb heat at a sufficient rate because of entropy. This brings about the interplay between the two conceptual frameworks of entropy and refinement that govern the unfolding of reality from the Big Bang until eternity according to physicist and author, Sean Carroll.
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Researchers claim that there is measurable evolution in the world today, with the heights of certain men increasing due to female selection.
20:38 - 24:07 (03:29)
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Researchers claim that there is measurable evolution in the world today, with the heights of certain men increasing due to female selection. However, human intervention in the evolutionary process is also prevalent, rendering some genetic mutations useless due to the quickly changing environment.
ChapterThe Far Future of the Cosmos and the Entropy of Thought
Episode#308 - Brian Greene - The Mind-bending Physics Of Eternity
PodcastModern Wisdom
The way we perceive time is not always accurate, as demonstrated by experiments with atomic clocks in motion and in different gravitational fields.
24:07 - 26:49 (02:41)
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The way we perceive time is not always accurate, as demonstrated by experiments with atomic clocks in motion and in different gravitational fields. Our intuition about time may not always be correct, leading to a need to understand the science of time and relativity.
ChapterThe Far Future of the Cosmos and the Entropy of Thought
Episode#308 - Brian Greene - The Mind-bending Physics Of Eternity
PodcastModern Wisdom
The drive towards ever-increasing disorder (entropy) and the drive towards refinement and complexity both shape the trajectory of the universe.
26:48 - 35:45 (08:56)
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The drive towards ever-increasing disorder (entropy) and the drive towards refinement and complexity both shape the trajectory of the universe. While the second law of thermodynamics tells us that overall entropy and disorder will go up, local regions of lower entropy can exist at the expense of generating heat that dissipates into the wider world.
ChapterThe Far Future of the Cosmos and the Entropy of Thought
Episode#308 - Brian Greene - The Mind-bending Physics Of Eternity
PodcastModern Wisdom
A discussion on the idea that any thinking system in the far future will eventually burn up in the heat generated by the entropy produced by the thinking process itself, and the possibility of Boltzmann brains floating around in the void.
35:45 - 43:42 (07:57)
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A discussion on the idea that any thinking system in the far future will eventually burn up in the heat generated by the entropy produced by the thinking process itself, and the possibility of Boltzmann brains floating around in the void.